bass

Did you ever notice on Rush’s song Prime Mover Geddy Lee manages in one place to play a traditional bass part AND a lead part at the same time – sort of a double picking thing usually done on guitar?

Obviously Geddy Lee of Rush is a mad bass demon who can keep up with Neil Peart’s complicated freaky time signatures. Fast, technical and tight. No matter what you think of Rush, you owe it to yourself to see them here doing YYZ....



John McVie (the Mac in Fleetwood Mac): never too flashy, solid deep tones with a bit of slap, dead-on timing. Like a big diesel engine powering the rhythm along.

Flea of the Chilli Peppers. Flea helped define SoCal phunk and plays like his shoes are on fire.

Robert Trujillo of Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Metalica and Ozzy Osborne. He’s a busy boy, here he is with the Grooves in 1994.

Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party. A fast and tight collaboration between him and drummer Matt Tong as seen here…



Justin Chancellor of Tool

Tim Commerford formerly of Rage Against The Machine and last seen in Audioslave.

Billy Sheehan of various bands but best know for his work with Steve Vai and David Lee Roth.

and finally this guy I found in my search doing an amazing bass cover of Rush's Analog Kid - it ain't natural having fingers that can do that...